What to do with these pieces— Piedad Bonnett

A shocking portrait, driven by fierce authenticity, about married life, old age, and family ties. "Piedad Bonnett's writing concentrates the virtues I most admire in literature: depth and conciseness [...]. Readers of the world, read this book." --Margarita García Robayo. At sixty-four, Emilia faces the remodeling of her kitchen. Her husband has decided it on his own, and she, who only wants to be left alone with her books, feels unable to resist. Bonnett starts from this everyday and seemingly trivial fact to construct a portrayal of placid and dangerous dissatisfaction, and of women cornered by very different kinds of abuse and silences. The passage of time, its accumulation and weight, gentrification and old age (one's own and others'), and the impossibility of truly knowing those around us permeate this novel, forcing us to look where we often don't want to look: at what we truly are.